Contents -- Preface, 2003 -- Introduction -- Part One: General Theoreticaland Empirical Analysis -- 1. Setting the Stage -- 2. The Market for Public Intellectuals -- 3. Care and Insight -- 4. Prediction and Influence -- 5. More Public, Less Intellectual -- Part Two: Genre Studies -- 6. The Literary Critic as Public Intellectual -- 7. Political Satire -- 8. The Jeremiah School -- 10. The Public Intellectual and the Law -- Conclusion: Improving the Market -- Epilogue, 2003 -- Acknowledgments -- Index.